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When beating to windward one tack may be more favorable than the other-more in the direction you wish to travel.
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When Miyagi witnesses the gang giving Daniel a savage beating, he intervenes and single-handedly defeats all five boys with ease.
When beating egg whites, they are classified in three stages according to the peaks they form when the beater is lifted: soft, firm, and stiff peaks.
When picked up by the police after the beating, Luciano said that he had no idea who did it.
When police arrived on the scene, Knight was beating his girlfriend of three years and brandishing a knife.
When the time came for the two to dig up the supposed treasure, Balsamo attacked Marano, who was left bleeding and wondering what had happened to the boy — in his mind, the beating he had been subjected to had been the work of djinns.
When the Decepticons board the Autobots ' ship it takes a beating and crashes onto Primitive Earth and knocks everyone unconscious.
When police escorts were called in to aid the strikebreakers, they were sometimes attacked as well ; one constable was partially paralyzed from the beating he received.
When the battle ended, the Mamluk heavy cavalrymen had accomplished what had never been done before, beating the Mongols in close combat.
When pianos are tuned by ear by technicians called piano tuners, the technician listens for the sound of " beating " when two notes are played together, and tunes to the point that minimizes roughness between tones.
When Forge monitors Wolverine's vitals during a Danger Room training session, he calls Logan's physical and mental state " equivalent of an Olympic-level gymnast performing a gold medal routine while simultaneously beating four chess computers in his head.
When an elderly man was severely beaten up in Munich by two immigrant youths, Struck claimed that his political opponent, Roland Koch, was probably happy for the beating because now Koch could start a supposedly polemic discussion about problems with young violent immigrants.
When the public was given the option to submit a write-in candidate, the magazine had not counted on 230, 169 votes for Hank the Angry Drunken Dwarf — beating out assorted celebrities by a wide margin.
When he leaves a bar a hostile man confronts Willie, but the Kid stops the man from beating Willie.
When asked if he had any remorse or guilt about beating Ryan, Goad said, " Absolutely not.
When it was initially ( and erroneously ) reported that Nap Lajoie had won the batting title, Crawford was alleged to have been one of several Tigers who sent a telegram to Lajoie congratulating him on beating Cobb.
When beating egg whites, they are classified in three stages according to the peaks they form when the beater is lifted: soft, firm, and stiff peaks.
When the marchers stopped to pray, the police discharged tear gas and mounted troopers charged the demonstrators, beating them with night sticks.
When he contested the Bromley & Chislehurst constituency in a May 2006 by-election, organised after the sitting MP representing it, eurosceptic Conservative Eric Forth, died, Farage came third, winning 8 % of the vote, beating the Labour Party candidate.
When Boyd returned in his new role as head of Elektra's London office, he signed them up for an album, beating off a rival bid from Transatlantic Records.
When Cross said something about beating Scholz ( in the film, Chariots of Fire ), the latter remarked, " You didn't beat me!
In the final scene of " Remember When " Junior sits passively, black and blue, with broken glasses from his beating, silently sitting and petting a cat sitting on his lap.
When she sees him beating his own shield, she steps into sight and threatens to kill him for his dishonor to chivalry.
When the Summer of 1996 rolled around, he would help lead the United States to its biggest international hockey win since the 1980 Winter Olympics, beating Canada in the 1996 World Cup of Hockey final series and was named to the All-Tournament Team.
When it opened, it was the top grossing film in New York, beating out its horror competition by taking in almost double the gross of Amityville 3-D. Sleepaway Camp attained a modest success in its theatrical run.
When and windward
When mounted on the lee side, the Bruce foil generates an upwards lift in addition to lateral force, and when mounted on the windward side, it generates a downwards force.
When running wing-and-wing, a light spinnaker pole or whisker pole is often used to hold the clew of the foresail out to the windward side of the boat.
When the air is humid, some of the moisture will fall on the windward slope and on the summit of the mountain.
# When boats are on the same tack and overlapped, the boat to windward ( the boat closest to the wind ) shall keep clear of a leeward boat ( Rule 11 ).
When both have the wind on the same side, the vessel which is windward must give way to the vessel which is leeward ;
When a sailing vessel is steered far enough to windward that the sail is no longer completely filled with wind ( the luff of a fore-and-aft sail begins to flap first ).
When beating to windward often your desired destination although still in the no sail zone is not aligned directly upwind-to the eye of the wind.
When sailing, the windward side bilgeboard is retracted into the hull of the boat, so that it produces no drag.
When under way, the pump can be used to fill the windward side, while the lee side is allowed to drain.
When preparing to tack, the valve is opened, and water in the windward tank, which is higher, is allowed to flow to the lee side, and the sheet is let off to keep the boat from heeling too far.
When and one
When they were closer and he saw that one was a woman, he was more puzzled than ever.
When one of the men in the hall behind us spat on the floor and scraped his boot over the gob of spittle I noticed how the clerk winced.
When they reached their neighbor's house, Pamela said a few polite words to Grace and kissed Melissa lightly on the forehead, the impulse prompted by a stray thought -- of the type to which she was frequently subject these days -- that they might never see one another again.
When he added to his Pittsburgh commitments the directorship of the London Philharmonic Orchestra in 1958, he conducted one hundred fifty concerts within nine months, `` commuting '' between the two cities.
When confronted with a drunk or an insane person I have no notion of what any one of them might do to me or to himself or to others.
When Fred wheeled him back into his room, the big one looking out on the back porch, and put him to bed, Papa told him he was very tired but that he had enjoyed greatly the trip downtown.
When he came home from his office at the end of the afternoon, Breasted never knew what gathering he should expect to find, but there almost always was one.
When it was not, one of the great dramas of Washington would be presented.
When one powerful nation strives to emulate the success of another, it is only natural.
When he was in the war, he was in Law or Supplies or something like that, and an old buddy of his told me he would come down on Sundays to the Pentagon and read the citations for medals -- just like the one we sent in for Trig -- and go away with a real glow.
When something unexpected happened, one always asked for water if one were a woman, brandy if one were a man.
When enough time had elapsed so that there was little likelihood of his returning for something he had forgotten, Harold went out into the hall and stood looking into one room after another.
When he was bent over behind the wheel of the station wagon, feeling in his trouser cuffs for the ignition key which he had dropped a moment before, she came out of the house with an enormous Rumanian shawl over her head, which she had bought in that country during one of their trips abroad, and handed him a clean handkerchief through the window.
When in one letter Jessica informed me that her father did not like the idea of her going out alone on New Year's Eve, I knew for a moment an immense relief ; ;
When he showed this model as his `` solution '' as to how the Howe sewing machine operated, he was told he was `` wrong '', and discovered to his amazement that the Howe Machine, which was unknown to him in detail, used two threads while the one that he had perfected used only one.
When it is needed, one formula is as important as another.
When mold has more than one design cavity, make individual paper patterns.
When changing from one color to another, whether working on right or wrong side, pick up the new strand from underneath dropped strand.
`` When working from one of my sketches I square it up and project its linear form freehand to the watercolor sheet with charcoal.
When he had left, I could never remember whether he had poked them in their middles, laughingly, with a thick index finger or whether he was merely so much the sort of person who did this that one assumed the action, not bothering to look.
When this experiment is viewed as composed of five binomial trials, one for each member of the family, the outcomes of the trials are obviously not independent.
When now we count the frequency of the 71 items in the two language families appearing in the same column or grade, or one column or grade apart, or two or three or four, we find these differences: Af
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